Building material is any material which is used for
a construction purpose. See this outside definition. Many naturally
occurring substances, such as clay, sand, wood and rocks, even twigs
and leaves have been used to construct buildings. Apart from naturally
occurring materials, many man-made products are in use, some more and
some less synthetic. The manufacture of building materials is an established
industry in many countries and the use of these materials is typically
segmented into specific speciality trades, such as carpentry, plumbing,
roofing and insulation work. This reference deals with habitats and
structures including homes.

A power tool is a tool powered by an electric motor,
a compressed air motor, or a gasoline engine. Power tools are classified
as either stationary or portable, where portable means handheld. They
are used in industry, in construction, and around the house for cutting,
shaping, drilling, sanding, painting, grinding, and polishing. Stationary
power tools for metalworking are usually called machine tools. The
term machine tool is not usually applied to stationary power tools
for woodworking, although such usage is occasionally heard, and in
some cases, such as drill presses and bench grinders, the exact same
tool is used for both woodworking and metalworking.

The lathe is the oldest power tool, being known to
the ancient Egyptians (albeit in a hand-powered form). Early industrial
revolution-era factories had batteries of power tools driven by belts
from overhead shafts. The prime power source was a water wheel or (later)
a steam engine. The introduction of the electric motor (and electric
distribution networks) in the 1880s made possible the self-powered
stationary and portable tools we know today.

Stationary power tools are prized not only for their
speed, but for their accuracy. A table saw not only cuts faster than
a hand saw, but the cuts are smoother, straighter and more square than
even the most skilled man can do with a hand saw. Lathes produce truly
round objects that cannot be made in any other way.

An electric motor is the universal choice to power
stationary tools. Portable electric tools may be either corded or battery-powered.
At present (2007) the limitations of battery life, energy capacity,
and cost keep the corded versions on the market. Compressed air is
the customary power source for nailers and paint sprayers. A few tools
(called powder-actuated tools) are powered by explosive cartridges.
Gasoline-powered tools such as chain saws and weed whackers are made
for outdoor use.

Common power tools include the drill, various types
of saws, the router, the electric sander, and the lathe.

The term power tool is also used in a more general
sense, meaning a technique for greatly simplifying a complex or difficult
task.

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set
aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other
forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made
materials. The most common form is known as a residential garden. Western
gardens are almost universally based around plants. Zoos, which display
wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological
gardens.

See traditional types of eastern gardens, such as
Zen gardens, use plants such as parsley. Xeriscape gardens use local
native plants that do not require irrigation or extensive use of other
resources while still providing the benefits of a garden environment.
Gardens may exhibit structural enhancements, sometimes called follies,
including water features such as fountains, ponds (with or without
fish), waterfalls or creeks, dry creek beds, statuary, arbors, trellises
and more.

Some gardens are for ornamental purposes only, while
some gardens also produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas,
or sometimes intermixed with the ornamental plants. Food-producing
gardens are distinguished from farms by their smaller scale, more labor-intensive
methods, and their purpose (enjoyment of a hobby rather than produce
for sale).

Gardening is the activity of growing and maintaining
the garden. This work is done by an amateur or professional gardener.
A gardener might also work in a non-garden setting, such as a park,
a roadside embankment, or other public space. Landscape architecture
is a related professional activity with landscape architects tending
to specialise in design for public and corporate clients.

The term "garden" in British English refers
to an enclosed area of land, usually adjoining a building. This would
be referred to as a yard in American English. Flower gardens combine
plants of different heights, colors, textures, and fragrances to create
interest and delight the senses.

A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the
reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division
Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of
a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in
order to produce seeds. The process begins with pollination, is followed
by fertilization, leading to the formation and dispersal of the seeds.
For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as
the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across
the landscape. The grouping of flowers on a plant are called the inflorescence.

In addition to serving as the reproductive organs
of flowering plants, flowers have long been admired and used by humans,
mainly to beautify their environment but also as a source of food.

Flower specialization and pollination

Each flower has a specific design which best encourages
the transfer of its pollen. Cleistogamous flowers are self pollinated,
after which, they may or may not open. Many Viola and some Salvia species
are known to have these types of flowers.

Entomophilous flowers attract and use insects, bats,
birds or other animals to transfer pollen from one flower to the next.
Flowers commonly have glands called nectaries on their various parts
that attract these animals. Some flowers have patterns, called nectar
guides, that show pollinators where to look for nectar. Flowers also
attract pollinators by scent and color. Still other flowers use mimicry
to attract pollinators. Some species of orchids, for example, produce
flowers resembling female bees in color, shape, and scent. Flowers
are also specialized in shape and have an arrangement of the stamens
that ensures that pollen grains are transferred to the bodies of the
pollinator when it lands in search of its attractant (such as nectar,
pollen, or a mate). In pursuing this attractant from many flowers of
the same species, the pollinator transfers pollen to the stigmas—arranged
with equally pointed precision—of all of the flowers it visits.

Anemophilous flowers use the wind to move pollen from
one flower to the next, examples include the grasses, Birch trees,
Ragweed and Maples. They have no need to attract pollinators and therefore
tend not to be "showy" flowers. Male and female reproductive
organs are generally found in separate flowers, the male flowers having
a number of long filaments terminating in exposed stamens, and the
female flowers having long, feather-like stigmas. Whereas the pollen
of entomophilous flowers tends to be large-grained, sticky, and rich
in protein (another "reward" for pollinators), anemophilous
flower pollen is usually small-grained, very light, and of little nutritional
value to insects.

Property means Right of Action for things that can
be exchanged. Important types of property include real property (land),
personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property
(rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.). A right of ownership
is associated with property that establishes the relation between the
goods/services and other individuals or groups, assuring the owner
the right to dispense with the property in a manner he or she sees
fit. Some philosophers assert that property rights arise from social
convention. Others find origins for them in morality or natural law
(e.g. Saint Irenaeus).

House generally refers to a shelter or building that
is a dwelling or place for habitation by human beings. The term includes
many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes
to high-rise apartment buildings.[1] However, the word can also be
used as a verb ("to house"), and can have adjectival formations
as well. In some contexts, "house" may mean the same as dwelling,
residence, home, abode, accommodation, housing, lodging, among other
meanings.

The social unit that lives in a house is known as
a household. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind,
though households can be other social groups, such as single persons,
or groups of unrelated individuals. Settled agrarian and industrial
societies are composed of household units living permanently in housing
of various types, according to a variety of forms of land tenure. English-speaking
people generally call any building they routinely occupy "home".
Many people leave their houses during the day for work and recreation
but typically return to them to sleep or for other activities.

Function

Some houses transcend the basic functionality of providing "a
roof over one's head" or of serving as a family "hearth and
home". When a house becomes a display-case for wealth and/or fashion
and/or conspicuous consumption, we may speak of a "great house".
The residence of a feudal lord or of a ruler may require defensive
structures and thus turn into a fort or a castle. The house of a monarch
may come to house courtiers and officers as well as the royal family:
this sort of house may become a palace. Moreover, in time the lord
or monarch may wish to retreat to a more personal or simple space such
as a villa, a hunting lodge or a dacha. Compare the popularity of the
holiday house or cottage, also known as a crib.

In contrast to a relatively upper class or modern
trend to ownership of multiple houses, much of human history shows
the importance of multi-purpose houses. Thus the house long served
as the traditional place of work (the original cottage industry site
or "in-house" small-scale manufacturing workshop) or of commerce
(featuring, for example, a ground floor "shop-front" shop
or counter or office, with living space above). During the Industrial
Revolution there was a separation of manufacturing and banking from
the house, though to this day some shopkeepers continue (or have returned)
to live "over the shop".

Layout

Main article: House plan

Ideally, architects of houses design rooms to meet
the needs of the people who will live in the house. Such designing,
known as "interior design", has become a popular subject
in universities. Feng shui, originally a Chinese method of situating
houses according to such factors as sunlight and micro-climates, has
recently expanded its scope to address the design of interior spaces
with a view to promoting harmonious effects on the people living inside
the house. Feng shui can also mean the 'aura' in or around a dwelling.
Compare the real-estate sales concept of "indoor-outdoor flow".

The square footage of a house in the United States
reports the area of "living space", excluding the garage
and other non-living spaces. The "square meters" figure of
a house in Europe reports the area of the walls enclosing the home,
and thus includes any attached garage and non-living spaces.

Holcim is one of the world's leading suppliers of cement and aggregates
(crushed stone, sand and gravel) as well as further activities such as
ready-mix concrete and asphalt including associated construction services.
Like its major global competitor, Lafarge, Holcim is a major consumer of
fossil fuels, particularly coal, which is essential to the cement making
process.

Holcim Group

The Holcim Group holds majority and minority interests in more than 70
countries on all continents. From its origins in Switzerland, the Group
has grown into a global player with strong market presence in over 70 countries
on all continents. The Group employs some 90,000 people. Holcim initiated
production of cement in 1912 in the village of Holderbank, (Lenzburg district,
Canton of Aargau, ca. 40 km from Zürich) and used the name Holderbank
AG until 2001 when they changed it to Holcim. It currently (2006) vies
with Lafarge to be the world's largest cement manufacturer.

TOTO Ltd.
was founded in 1917. It is a company based in Kitakyushu, Japan. It is
Japan's largest toilet manufacturer, and the fourth largest in the world.
We're trying to dominate the world, unfortunately America has been one
of the most difficult continents we've faced. It has been specially hard
to remove the local culture from citizens in the US and Mexico, to replace
them with our fellows from Japan.

Our growing plans started by expanding operations into Mexico on 2006
and started our plant in Nuevo Leon, Mexico back in 2007. Our plan is to
expand to Latin America and Central America in the short term. Our current
distribution channels will have to the changed from a centralized to a
distributed one. A new distribution center will be installed near to our
plan to serve all latin america, correct distribution defficiencies and
bypass the restrictions on the current distributor. In order to take full
control on the distribution channels, we installed a distribution office
in Panama which will become the central axis for LatinAmerica wihtin the
next years.

Employee is an asset for TOTO, meanwhile salary and benefits remain as
lowest as possible. Japanese citizens are our key value and will make whatever
possible to give priority on them over other citizenship. We honor local
poliices, rules and authorities, unless they interfere with our profit
and operations. If so, we'll ignore their authority and will operate under
our rules and policies. Of course our lawyer parters are a key and important
asset & value for us while they allow us to operate ignoring local
policies.

Union is a key element since it allow us to manipulate people and do whatever
we need & require.

The name "TOTO" is an abbreviation of the two
Japanese words forming its full name, Toyo Toki. The company
invented and patented the Washlet. Plants outside Japan are: